I knew every line from The Book of Mormon soundtrack before I saw it, the show was amazing anyway (plus all of the sight gags were new to me). Since I won’t be able to see Hamilton until the tour comes to the Kennedy Center, I’m getting the soundtrack. Sorry, Julianne, but I see no need to deny myself some highly…

I am listening to the soundtrack as I read your article. I am very unlikely to see it except in a road show three years from now, so I have nothing to lose.

Their audience is women. Disproportionately, nurses are women.

So obviously what Behar said was wrong and idiotic, but I'm kind of surprised at this level of backlash. The people on The View have said way worse about many other groups of people (like rape survivors, for example). Curious.

WHY? Why do they care how long her hair is? Unless the objective is to humiliate her.

Thank god someone in this country is will to ask the question “but how do white people feel right now?”

Yes, Bristol, you’re absolutely right. The police who dragged a 14-year-old out of school in handcuffs for building a science project and subjected him to hours of racist interrogation without allowing him access to a lawyer or his parents are the real victims here. The police and white people everywhere. Can’t put…

I like her style. If you’re going down in flames anyway, the least you can do is have some fun during the ride.

Lappen ended up serving 279 days in prison, but not before becoming an object of public ire — and maybe all for naught.

It just felt like the only reason they invited Effie to the panel was to check off the diversity boxes. Why have her there as the minority voice of you're not even going to listen to what she has to say?

Great breakdown. I watched the episode last night and I was SO rooting for Effie and felt uncomfortable on her behalf. Especially when she emphasized on coming from a place “with love in my heart”, like she knew immediately she had to explicitly say it for fear she’d be written off as the angry black woman otherwise.…

Full Disclosure: I don’t really dislike Matt Damon. He is just being a dumb ass in this case and needs to be told so.

it’s 3 generations of nepotism, her mother was elected clerk for 30 yrs or so, Kim was HER deputy then ran for clerk when her mother retired

I think it may be her son. (Who is one of her clerks...how is THAT legal in a govt job. An elected official in my hometown tried to give a parking attendant job to the relative of a friend and all hell broke loose. I’m surprised she didn’t get backlash for hiring her son.)

She probably can’t withhold her signature or title from marriage licenses issued by her office. Hopefully that’s legally codified and she goes back to jail.

How is she not already “continu[ing] to violate state and federal law” just because she’s letting her deputy clerk issue probably-invalid licenses?

but acknowledge that the legality of such licenses is unclear

Hell, the way my nine-year-old expresses herself is more sophisticated.

I love how he has the vocabulary of an 11 year old.

also, HE IS CLEARLY MARRIED and she STILL doesn’t get that at the end, which is mind-blowing. like, thats not an engagement party, sweetie.